The Time Vampire is a Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

 audiobook based on the long-running British

United Kingdom

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 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

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The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Plot

The Doctor

Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....

 is concerned that K9 has become dangerous, in a tale that Leela recalls just before she dies.

Cast

• Leela
  Leela (Doctor Who)
  Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978...
  
   — Louise Jameson
  Louise Jameson
  Louise Jameson is an English actress, best known for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the fourth Doctor in Doctor Who. Jameson has also appeared on Emmerdale , The Omega Factor Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, best known...
  
  
• K9 / Holland — John Leeson
  John Leeson
  John Leeson is a British actor who is best known for voicing K-9 on the television series Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, and again in the 1980–1981 season. He was called back to do the voice of K-9 again for the 2006 episode "School Reunion" and again for the 2008 Doctor Who episode "Journey's End"...
  
  

Continuity

• This story concludes the trilogy that was started in The Catalyst
  The Catalyst (Doctor Who audio)
  The Catalyst is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects...
  
  and continued in Empathy Games
  Empathy Games
  Empathy Games is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.-...
  
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• While the timelines shift throughout this play, the bulk of it seems to take place just before The Invasion of Time
  The Invasion of Time
  The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 4 February to 11 March 1978...
  
  , as the Doctor has already begun constructing K9 Mark II.
• The Z'nai were last heard in The Catalyst, in both the main story and the framing story. In the former, Leela meets the son of the Emperor glimpsed in this story.
• Joshua Douglas, who the Doctor traveled with in an earlier incarnation, and who Leela met in The Catalyst, is also briefly seen. He seems to be with the Third Doctor
  Third Doctor
  The Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
  
  , a man with white hair and a bright red jacket.
• In Empathy Games, the Doctor recalls witnessing a world burn, a long time ago. That moment is illustrated in this tale.
• The wood paneled secondary console room was destroyed in Empathy Games.

External links

• The Time Vampire